Hitting up Beijing’s hutongs for street food

The old alleyways in China's capital hold a plethora of good eats, as The Food Ranger finds out

With its maze of alleyways, Beijing’s iconic hutongs may be hard for an outsider to penetrate. But for the determined and hungry, getting in there holds a wealth of culinary rewards. The Food Ranger meets up with a local guide to uncover the street food in the capital’s hutongs, eating everything from an offal stew calledluzhu(卤煮) to miancha(面茶), a millet sesame porridge. And of course, there’s Peking duck too.